Nightingale, Florence. — NOTES ON NURSING: What It Is, And What It Is Not.

Harrison N.d. c.[1859]. 1st Ed. 2nd Issue (Adverts to e.ps., but without the “Right of Translation” to t.p.) Thin 8vo. 79pp. Some light spotting, original gilt lettered brown cloth, minor loss to extremities, minor marking to lower board, rebacked in brown leather. Garrison and Morton 1612. ‘After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean War gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of stained nurses. Without a few months of her arrival at Scutari, the mortality rate among soldiers there fell from 42% to 2%. Florence Nightingale lived to be the greatest figure in the history of nursing ...’